Chapter 102 - Oceanic Assault (2/2)

After all, it was very reasonable after thinking carefully. In the wilderness, there were animals with imposing dimensions, without them having been magnified by spirit power. Therefore, if they had awakened their spirit power and become spirit beasts, it was evident that they would start from a considerable size. Furthermore, not all spirit beasts grew out of proportion as their strength increased. Some chose to block their body growth, preferring a less bulky stature but still possessed high power.

On the deck, the various sailors were fighting against the octopus tentacles, terrified of being wrapped and thrown into the sea. It was because aquatic spirit beasts would have had an overwhelming advantage if they had moved the fight into water. Not to mention that the octopus wasn't the only spirit beast that was attacking.

A Great White Shark of about 5-6 meters was ramming the sides of the ship, crashing at high speed. From above, a five-meter Manta was hovering and attacking the sailors engaged in holding the octopus's tentacles, before diving back into the water to regain momentum.

Captain Fu was trying to protect his men, and although he had managed to avoid losses among his men so far, it was clear that he couldn't keep up the pace even though he was stronger than the spirit beasts in theory.

This was happening because the reached cultivation stage wasn't enough to dictate the victory. The spirit beasts were attacking in three while Captain Fu was just one person. Furthermore, he was consuming his energies to protect his men and the ship.

”Stop! Stop attacking!” Hei shouted. However, he wasn't addressing the human beings who were defending themselves, but the spirit beasts that were attacking.

They, hearing an unknown human speak their language, were so disconcerted that momentarily stopped the siege on the ship.

”If we have disturbed you, we would like to apologize for crossing your territory. We're just passing through. We'll leave immediately.”

In the meantime that Hei was trying to calm the spirit beasts, Captain Fu and his sailors looked with astonishment at the scene before their eyes. A young boy stood fearlessly before those terrifying spirit beasts.

Upon hearing Hei's apology, the Manta began producing various noises to answer him. And its message wasn't positive at all.

Basically, it had said that they had been ordered by their master to destroy every ship that approached their position and to kill all the humans on board, without sparing one. And to them, it was a task that they didn't dislike because they could have eaten human flesh to satiety. The octopus, in turn, addressed Hei's mocking words, telling him that he would become an excellent snack for starting the day. Lastly, the great white shark was even more vulgar, pronouncing obscenities even more disgusting.

”I see. If this is how things are, you don't leave me any other choice. YE! XING! LIAN! Attack!”

With that battle cry, the three females at his side moved with lightning speed.

Xing used the tremendous force of her legs to jump up, coming before the Manta and clinging to the creature's body. Ye instead slipped directly under water, directed towards the great white shark while increasing her size. Among them, she was the most skilled at fighting in the water. Lian instead activated her spirit power together with Hei. Then the two youths took out their weapons and hurled themselves against the octopus.

Lian brought out two long silk ribbons wrapped around her body. These ribbons, similar to vines, tied together with the various tentacles of the octopus, preventing the powerful creature from attacking. Hei instead waved his purple lance with red veins.

Slash!

In one fell swoop, the tentacles tied by Lian's ribbons were cut cleanly, falling with a thud on the deck of the ship before the incredulous eyes of the sailors who until recently were struggling desperately against those tentacles.

However, Hei hadn't finished his offensive. Using the ship's railing as a support point, Hei jumped out of the ship. His landing point would be nothing but the face of the octopus.

Seeing the little human swoop down on it like that, the octopus was puzzled. But it immediately recovered and instantly hurled more tentacles. It happened that the previous cut tentacles weren't all the tentacles it had available, but it had others. But Hei didn't care about those things.

By concentrating his spirit power on his spear, he could hear his mother's pulse resounding in the weapon, and that made him euphoric and full of vigor.

”Spear Intent! Spider Thrust.”

The purple lance flashed and again cut off the octopus tentacles. At that point, the giant spirit beast was seized by fear and tried to withdraw underwater. But how could Hei let the enemy escape?

”Law of Poison, Poisonous Thread.”

Suddenly, from Hei's hands came out a very thin thread similar to that of a spiderweb. However, instead of using it as an attack, Hei tied him to the end of his spear. Then with all the strength he had, Hei threw the spear straight at the octopus that was descending into the water.

Swoosh! Thrust!

With a strong penetrating power, the spear went to thrust deep into the head of the octopus, which twisted with pain. But it wasn't over here. Hei used the thread he had created to recall the spear he had hurled. Meanwhile, Lian had tightened one of her ribbons and was keeping Hei suspended in mid-air. From that position, the young martial artist attacked, repeatedly throwing his spear until the octopus died out definitively.

Xing meanwhile was fighting in the air against the Manta. She tied part of her body to the enemy so that she wasn't shaken off and then she started impaling the body of the Manta who crashed onto the deck, in the grip of convulsions due to the toxic poison injected by Xing.

Ye instead used the ferocity of the great white shark to her advantage. Taking advantage of it wanting to bite her, she made herself be swallowed on purpose. Then from inside its body, Ye had started to dig through the flesh until she came out of the shark's backside. On her mouth, she held a small blue sphere, meaning the spirit core of the great white shark.

Amazing! Unbelievable! Frightening! Horrifying!

These were the emotions of Captain Fu and his men when watching those two youths and that couple spider and snake fighting. Before long, they had succeeded in wiping out three spirit beasts comparable to three or four martial artists with a sixth stage spirit apprentice cultivation. And the most surprising thing was that the two youths, despite their young age, were already in the seventh stage. Meaning, they were equal in power to Captain Fu, yet their fighting strength was higher than that of the captain.

”So young and yet so strong... what the hell kind of monsters have they asked me to carry?!” Captain Fu wondered to himself as he had a half-smile of disbelief on his face in front of Hei and Lian's performance.

Since they were VIPs, he thought they were the children of some noble who wanted to travel the world. Never would have imagined that they were two martial artists of such great talent and power.